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SFMTA on-street car share pilot – latest news

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SFMTA on-street car share pilot – latest news
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) is carrying out a two-year pilot program to facilitate car sharing in San Francisco by making on-street parking spaces available in all neighborhoods in the City for use by qualified Car Share Organizations (“CSOs”).

SFMTA Car Sharing Policy and Pilot Project document adopted by the SFMTA in July 2013

Based on extensive independent academic research on car sharing here in the Bay Area, the SFMTA believes that there are many public benefits to car sharing, and we’re testing things further and collecting more data using this pilot. Participating car share organizations (City CarShare, ZIpcar, and Getaround) will pay monthly permit fees for the parking spaces, and they’ll have to collect and share a great deal of data with the SFMTA about how the vehicles are being used, and who’s using them. At the end of two years we’ll evaluate the data and potentially recommend making on-street car sharing a permanent program (if the pilot experience indicates).

The three pilot-participant CSOs have been working with the SFMTA to identify on-street locations for car share vehicles under the pilot, with recommended locations being reviewed and refined and brought through community outreach and SFMTA public hearings. In many cases, based on feedback and advice from neighbors and merchants, location proposals are being moved and re-evaluated, towards having the best car share locations to test under the pilot program.

This map shows the locations of proposed on-street car share vehicles (many locations shown have been relocated based on community conversations):

Map of proposed on-street car share locations (DRAFT June 30 2014)

Public Hearing July 11: The SFMTA will be holding a public hearing on July 11 to review some of the locations proposed for car share spaces under the pilot, please see the agenda for a full list of proposed spaces to be discussed at the hearing:

July 11, 2014 SFMTA public hearing agenda

Everyone is very welcome to attend and speak up. We understand that it can be challenging for people to attend City Hall meetings during the day, so we’ll be happy to take any comments via email, simply send a message to Sustainable.Streets@sfmta.com. Comments are welcome and will be heard and considered even if people don’t send them before the July 11 hearing.

Based on feedback from that hearing and other comments and conversations about those proposals, those locations could go forward to the SFMTA Board of Directors for their deliberation and possible approval. It’s important to note that the three pilot participant car share organizations have been working to revise and adjust their proposals in consultation with neighbors and merchants, and the car share space proposals are being relocated and refined quite a bit on their way to approval and implementation and study.

SFMTA Board meeting on July 15: The SFTMA Board of Directors will take up a group of on-street car share proposals for consideration and possible approval at their July 15 meeting. These locations were taken from those reviewed at the June 13 SFMTA public hearing. The agenda for the July 15 SFMTA Board meeting will be posted next week; we’ll send you a message when that agenda has been finalized and posted.

For more information about the SFMTA car share policy and on-street pilot program, please refer to the on-street car share project pages on the SFMTA website or contact Andy Thornley at (415) 701-4213 or email Andy.Thornley@sfmta.com.
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Shop for Sunnyside Shirts for the Entire Family

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The Sunnyside Neighborhood Association offers you its Official T-Shirt !
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SF parade volunteer as Sunnyside resident continues his long service

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Long time Sunnyside resident David Tejeda is featured in the Bay Area Reporter highlighting  his long-serving volunteers in the Pride parade. He was recognized by Pride officials at the post-parade volunteer appreciation party two years ago as the organization’s longest surviving volunteer.

Thanks David for your service.

Original article: http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=69833

 

SF parade volunteer continues his long service

Published 06/26/2014

by Khaled Sayed

 
Look for longtime San Francisco Pride volunteer David Tejeda at the end of the route at this year’s parade.(Photo: Khaled Sayed)  

There are hundreds of volunteers that make the San Francisco LGBT Pride parade and festival a success. But one San Francisco gay man has been helping out for decades.

David Tejeda, a building contractor, is believed to be one of the longest-serving volunteers in the Pride parade. He was recognized by Pride officials at the post-parade volunteer appreciation party two years ago as the organization’s longest surviving volunteer, he said.

His first parade was 1976 and that year, according to the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration Committee website, the event started on Pine Street and made its way to Duboce Park.

Celebrating Pride Month has become a tradition all over the world. San Francisco’s Pride parade, called Gay Freedom Day back then, was one of the first that started an amazing tradition of celebrating LGBTQ culture, politics, and activism.

According to the Pride Committee, the city’s first Pride march was held June 28, 1970 to mark the one-year anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, which is generally viewed as the birth of the modern gay rights movement.

There was apparently no official event in 1971, but in 1972 a parade was held and in those days it ended on Polk Street.

Now San Francisco Pride is the largest event of its type in the U.S., according to the Wall Street Journal.

Tejeda, 66, has been volunteering for 31 years. He helped out off and on from 1976 to 1998, and since then has volunteered every year. In recent years he has been posted at the end of the parade route, at Market and 8th streets.

“It’s been said that the parade comes to me,” he quipped.

Marsha Levine, Pride board vice president and the longtime parade manager, confirmed that Tejeda has been with the Pride Committee for many years.

“He was an operations volunteer from 1998 to 2010,” Levine said. “In 2010 he transitioned to a safety volunteer and began assisting the parade team by working in the dispersal area at Eighth Street and Market.”

Tejeda has seen the parade route change and its size increase.

“I have watched the Parade go from one-half of Polk Street for a few blocks to the largest event of it type in the U.S,” he said

One of Tejeda’s fondest memories is shaking former Mayor Gavin Newsom’s hand, despite all the security protecting him.

Another memory Tejeda holds dear to his heart was last year when his nephew and his wife showed up and surprised him during the parade.

“They took a picture of me during a slow point, sitting in the middle of Market and 8th Street. They later told me they had a great time,” Tejeda said.

Tejeda has lived in lots of places, among them Munich, Germany; Puerto Rico; southern California; Seattle; and Okinawa, Japan.

“Then for college I moved to the Bay Area and eventually into San Francisco in 1976 – and never left,” he said.

Tejeda is married to Michael Gagne, who contributes to the community as the volunteer board president of Tenderloin Tessie, the nonprofit that provides holiday dinners to those in need.

One of the reasons Tejeda volunteers is to help make the world a better place for future generations.

“I also want to make sure younger gay generations don’t forget about the struggles that it took to get to where we are today,” Tejeda said. “That nobody handed our civil rights to us.”

Tejeda said he is thrilled to be part of Pride.

 

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission requests your assistance in water conservation

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We are in a drought, and we need your help! In an effort to make water conservation convenient and accessible, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) recently launched an online application called “My Account” that allows customers to track water use and save money.

What is My Account? My Account is an online application that allows current water and sewer customers (active account holders) of the SFPUC to view their bills, payments, and water consumption usage online. This portal provides monthly and daily consumption data to assist customers with monitoring their water use, water and sewer bill costs. Voluntary water conservation will help San Francisco reach its goal of water usage reduction by 10%.

Automated Water Meters, which are in place throughout San Francisco, track customer’s daily water use. Customers can then access this information through My Account. In addition, customers can compare their water consumption with other San Francisco households of a similar size, track their own conservation progress, and save water and money.

Every gallon you save helps all of us!

To register, go to myaccount.sfwater.org.

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SNA Greening and Weeding Day: Volunteers Needed, Saturday June 7, 9 am – 12 pm

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Hi all Sunnyside greeners,
 
Our next clean up will again be on Circular Ave, with the help of the Green, Clean Team of Parks Alliance.
 
BUT, we really need neighborhood help as well. Our regular team is 4-5 people, and if we’re to keep Sunnyside safe, attractive, and clear of weeds and trash, we need MORE PEOPLE! Your hour or so of work makes a difference.
 
Saturday June 7th, 9am – 12 noon, meet at Circular and Congo: we’ll be working up Circular toward the freeway, and we aim to finish Circular. Grasses are easy, fennel & broom need chopping, ivy to be cut back. If you have them, bring favorite tools & gloves. Please help us! 
 
greensunnyside@gmail.com